With a final click, the "Big Dump" began its journey through the web, a silent explosion of data that would change everything by morning.
: To get the data out through the narrow bandwidth of a secure satellite link, he had to squeeze it using a proprietary 7z algorithm. The result was a single, massive, 40-gigabyte heart of a archive.
: As the upload hit 99%, the door behind him hissed open. He didn't turn around. He just had to decide if he was going to hit "Send" to the public forums or "Delete" to save his own skin.
The server room hummed with a low, anxious frequency as Jax watched the progress bar crawl across the screen. He was looking at —the culmination of three years of "under-the-radar" data collection.